ARRESTS IN RUSSIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 December 1934, Page 7

ARRESTS IN RUSSIA

INCLUDE FORMER LEADERS FASCIST PLOT ALLEGED [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, December 21. The “Daily Express’s” Warsaw correspondent says: An official announcement. which has been made from the Moscow Radio, states that M. Zinoviev and M. Kamenev were to blame for Kirov’s murder. M. Stalin summoned both of them to the Kremlin, and when they left the Kremlin, the O.G.P.U. placed them under arrest. The radio announcer added: “Now we know who, and where, the enemy is! M. Stalin says that he will not rest until the last man of the Zino-> viov-Kamenev opposition has been destroyed.” The “Daily Telegraph’s” Moscow correspondent says:— There have been one hundred and three persons recently shot, for alleged white terrorism, but these shootings have already been forgotten. The stage has now been cleared for a real disclosure of the Kirov murder plot. The official Soviet Press is cautiously disclosing the fact that an organised Fascist-terrorist group has been discovered within the former Bolshevik Party, the members of which how admire Nazi Germany.

BRITISH LABOUR PROTEST. , (Recd. December 22, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, December 21. The T.U.C. and Labour National Executive have jointly issued a statement that while appreciating the natural outraged feelings of the Soviet, due to the assassination of Kirov, they are profoundly shocked and alarmed by the subsequent reprisals in the form of widespread summary executions, and they express the opinion that all those arrested should have public trials and opportunities for legal defence. They have asked the Soviet Ambassador to receive a deputation on the subject.